The crack exploded into a blast of violent light which flung the team backwards.
They all hit the ground with heavy thuds, it was like the light had burned through their skin and into their veins.
Jack yelled out in pain. It felt like venom was running through his veins as his brain pounded in agony, he could hear incoherent screams inside his head, none which sounded like his own.
Tosh gasped, her head burned as though a thousand electrical currents were attacking her brain simultaneously, it felt like each cell in her body was freezing into ice. She withered on the ground, screaming in agony, clutching her head.
Owen grunted, curling into a ball as his insides twisted into knots. It felt like his organs were burning into charred meat. He could feel something dark and demonic twist inside himself. The only relief he got from this was the cool feeling that was flowing in his veins.
Gwen whimpered, she could feel agony all over her body as her team mates let out cries of pain which she could feel inside her soul. She could feel fire coursing through her veins but the phantom pain she was feeling masked it.
Ianto bit his lip to stop himself from screaming. There was an unbearable pain in his head, it felt like his head was frying as flashes of images appeared in his mind, leaving as soon as they came. He could hear the screams of the others and tried to focus on moving, his body however was not co-operating with him.
He clenched his jaw, he focused hard on getting away from the pain inside his head so that he could help the team. The more he focused specifically on getting away from the pain, the less he felt it, he focused harder and suddenly the pain disappeared.
He stood up, looking around. The team had been tossed in random directions, he rushed over to Gwen who was closest to him.
"Gwen," he asked frantically, kneeling down beside her body. She sat up with a gasp, clutching her stomach.
Gwen glanced around frantically, not noticing Ianto kneeling beside her, she could sense that her friends were in pain. She knew she had to help them.
She stood up on shaky legs, Ianto did the same, looking at her with concern, "Gwen, are you okay?"
Gwen, who didn't hear the question, stumbled towards Owen and Tosh. She recoiled from Owen, the sick feeling inside her getting worse when she went near him.
"Tosh," she muttered, kneeling down between them, she laid a hand on Tosh's arm.
Tosh gasped, her eyes flying open, she looked around and noticed Owen curled into a ball, a foot away from her, and Gwen who was kneeling beside her.
"Where's Jack and Ianto," she asked.
"I'm right here," Ianto huffed, a little stung by Tosh's comment.
Owen grunted as he uncurled his body and sat up, "What the bloody hell happened?"
"Don't know," Gwen replied, "We'll have to go back to the Hub."
Tosh nodded, and with the help of Gwen and Owen, stood up. The group went over to Jack who had began to stand up.
"Where's Ianto?" Jack demanded, concerned when he noticed that Ianto wasn't with the rest of them.
Ianto's patience snapped, "I'm right here! This isn't funny," he scowled.
"Over there," Owen said, jerking his head towards Ianto's body. Ianto turned and froze at the sight of his own unconscious body.
"What?" Ianto blinked, had he died? It didn't feel like he had, but what other explanation could there be.
"Oh God, I'm dead," Ianto said out loud, "the first time I'm invited out to do field work and I die."
Owen kneeled down by Ianto's body, checking for a pulse.
"I wonder if they'll mourn me," Ianto mused, he already knew what would happen to his body. He hated the idea that no one would care that he died though, he considered the excuses that Jack would tell Rhiannon, would he be another road death statistic?
"He's alive," Owen confirmed.
"How am I alive?" Ianto demanded, trying not to blush when he noticed Jack lifting up his body, bridal style.
"Right," Jack grunted, "you'll give a full physical to us all, starting with Ianto, when we get back."
Tosh opened the back door to the SUV, giving Jack space to set Ianto down into his seat, before climbing in after with Gwen behind her.
Ianto stood outside the SUV pondering for a moment, he still wasn't sure what happened to him, but he knew it would be a long walk back if he didn't figure out how to get into the car.
He sighed and decided to try to sit where his body was. It's worth a shot, he thought, walking through the car until he was standing in front of himself.
He shifted slightly until he was occupying the same space as his body. Nothing happened until he concentrated on being where his body was then, much to his surprise, he was in his body again. Just in time for Jack to start driving.
Ianto gasped, sitting up straighter in his seat.
"Glad to see you back in the land of the living, Teaboy," Owen commented, although Ianto could hear the slight relief in his tone.
"Are you, okay?" Tosh asked, looking at him.
"Yeah, fine," Ianto muttered, not wanting to mention his little out-of-body experience.
"Well, Owen is still going to give you a full physical when we get back," Jack ordered. Ianto nodded, he knew that already, even if he wasn't going to mention it.
Ianto noticed Jack giving him an odd look in the side view mirror but decided not to ask about it.
Jack frowned, focusing on the road, he had heard Ianto's thoughts loud and clear but that had never happened before. He knew that his Time Agency training gave him some minor form of telepathy but it usually took a lot of concentration for him to read someone's thoughts so clearly like he just had.
He shook it off, he had probably just been imagining it.
Owen was staring out the window, lost in thought, he could feel something inside of him, like it was trying to claw its way out through his skin. It felt dark and Owen hated to admit it but he could feel a demonic presence inside him, and it terrified him.
Tosh was focusing on her PDA, trying to see if she could get any useful information from the energy scan. She was used to working with technology but this felt different, it felt like her PDA was telling her the information, she could practically hear the words in her mind even though it all came up in binary code on the screen.
Gwen leaned her head against the window, she tried not to look at Owen, she didn't know why but she felt a certain dark feeling in her stomach when she focused her attention on him which worried her.
"Right, here we are," Jack sighed, parking the SUV, "Owen, go take Ianto to the autopsy bay, Tosh go and see if you can find out anything about that energy while Ianto get's checked out."
They entered the Hub through the secret back exit, where the SUV was usually parked. They walked down the corridor in silence, none of them knew what to say, lost in their own thoughts.
Tosh headed off to her work station while Owen, Ianto, Gwen and Jack went to the autopsy bay for their examinations.


A/N: I'll post a list of their powers in the next chapter, they get two each.